Although Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies are grabbing headlines, stocking up on VC investment and creeping out of the early adopter phase of uptake, it’s still a new thing with a lot of questions around. Have you ever used platform as a service or thought of using it?

As active members of the technology sector it is important to study all the up and coming tools, and like all services, PaaS is tied together to the problem-solution cycle of the everyday production segment. At ZT, we’ve played around a bit with Amazon and Heroku, plus others like OpenShift and Cloudbees at differnt times. Toomas loves Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), but isn’t sold yet on PaaS. Jevgeni would be happy to know nothing about what’s happening in the background, as long as things are transparent, scalable and reversible (much like LiveRebel).

One can argue that if you use platform as a service you can focus your attention on the application at hand, yet at the same time as complexity grows you will have some issues to confront in the future. In the end, the market is still too young, niche players like Salesforce.com are finding good success in their fields and Amazon has the biggest belly of them all.

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Giselle is the Marketing Operations Coordinator at ZeroTurnaround. She enjoys seeing the evolution in trends, innovations, and communication strategies that motivate behaviors within market audiences. Giselle's appreciation for quality and an agile workflow makes a highly productive combination.

The former Indian leg-wrestling champion of his home town, Oliver joined the ZeroTurnaround team in 2010 as the tiny startup's first marketing employee. While not a developer himself, he is inexplicably talented at finding code errors that somehow appear in RebelLabs articles. Oliver likes reading, writing and 'rithmatic, as well as music, films, dogs, steaks, gazing at world maps and strolling through the deeply-forested parks of the Czech Republic, where he lives. Say hi on Twitter @theotown